The Terror of the Heavens Begins with Gu

Chapter 88 A ghost worth studying

Li Zhen was deeply impressed by the movie "Ghost Eyes". Some of the plots in the movie caused an extremely significant psychological impact on him, who was still young at that time.

He looked down at the runes on his right arm.

[Because of a pair of contact lenses, Wang Baoling is haunted by a ghost and lives in fear every day. Please investigate the cause and find a way to get rid of the ghost.]

The description of this mission was very clear, which was a breath of fresh air compared to the abstract descriptions of the previous two times, making Li Zhen feel a little uncomfortable.

After reading the mission description twice, Li Zhen was completely certain that this was the world of "Ghost Eyes".

The plot of Ghost Eyes is very simple, with the mission descriptions and the movie title summarizing most of the content.

The ghost inside was not strong, but Li Zhen was very interested in it.

If he remembered correctly, this was a ghost that survived by sucking yang energy and blood, and could also transfer to different bodies. It was very difficult to kill.

This ghost is worth studying...

Li Zhen himself also lacked yang energy, but he could not absorb yang energy from living people like this ghost.

The little ghost does not have the ability to directly absorb the yang energy of living people to prolong his life, and needs to rely on Li Zhen's blood to maintain his current state.

If we catch this ghost and study it for a while, we might be able to find something out.

Wang Baoling picked up the scissors and carefully cut Li Zhen's nails.

She didn't look bad, but her face was too haggard, so she looked a bit like a female ghost.

"What's your surname, sir?"

"My surname is Li."

"Mr. Li's nails are really long. Haven't you had them trimmed in a long time?"

“It just grows fast.”

"Mr. Li's hands are very cold, and he seems to be lacking in energy and blood. His nails shouldn't be growing so fast."

"Your face is very pale, and it seems that you are lacking in energy and blood."

"Maybe...maybe I didn't get enough rest last night."

"Did you not get enough rest, or did you encounter something strange?"

Hearing this, Wang Baoling suddenly looked up at Li Zhen.

Li Zhen's appearance and temperament are too unique, and that cold temperament would make anyone feel awe-inspiring.

Even though she had been working for a long time, Wang Baoling had never seen a customer like Li Zhen.

While she was cutting her nails, she didn't even look at Li Zhen.

It was not until now that she saw Li Zhen's eyes.

Wang Baoling suddenly felt a sense of fear that all her secrets had been seen through.

Reluctantly calming down, she gave a stiff smile: "Mr. Li, are you kidding?"

"You know best whether I'm joking or not." Li Zhen didn't laugh. "You're like this because your Yang Qi has been sucked out in large quantities. Once your Yang Qi is gone, you'll be dead too."

"It won't be long before you reach the worst possible outcome."

Picking up the nail clippers that had fallen to the ground, Wang Baoling tightly grasped Li Zhen's arm, as if grasping a lifeline: "Mr. Li is a mage?"

Li Zhen nodded: "Yes."

Wang Baoling's breathing became rapid: "I have encountered a lot of strange things in the past few days..."

Li Zhen interrupted, "This doesn't seem like a good place to talk about this kind of topic."

"I'll find a place to talk to the wizard." Wang Baoling quickly put away the scissors.

Li Zhen said, "Since you're here, why don't you help me trim my nails first?"

Wang Baoling was startled: "Then I will help Master Li trim his nails first."

……

Ten minutes later, Li Zhen walked out of the hair salon and nail salon.

Wang Baoling’s manicure skills are really good, she trimmed his nails to the perfect length.

Moving his gaze from his nails to the vampire zombie, Li Zhen saw that the three thugs who had tried to cause trouble for him before were surrounding the vampire zombie, and one of them was about to lift the vampire zombie's burqa.

Hearing the footsteps behind them, the three of them turned around at the same time.

Seeing that it was Li Zhen, one of them laughed and said, "Hey, boy, is this your buddy? He looks quite impressive."

He reached out to pick up the vampire's robe.

Li Zhen's eyes narrowed.

It had been a long time since he met a passerby whom he disliked so much.

The vampire zombie sensed his will and suddenly reached out to grab the man's arm, pushing him to the ground little by little.

The man's expression changed from laughter to solemnity, and finally to fear, and he let out a scream.

Seeing that something was wrong, the other two people quickly grabbed the vampire zombie's arms and tried to help the man break free.

The vampire zombie slowly bent down.

The curtain under the bamboo hat fluttered, and a ferocious face appeared in front of the three people, scaring them so much that they opened their mouths wide.

The vampire zombie spewed out a large amount of black corpse gas, which made the three people faint from the stench.

After inhaling this corpse qi, these three people will be weak for at least two to three years.

After leaving the three people behind, the vampire zombie returned to its original state and slowly walked to Li Zhen's side.

Its body was shaking slightly.

Without any perception, Li Zhen could see the zombie's restlessness just from its appearance.

After returning to the present world, Li Zhen has been feeding it with animal blood.

Now that it has come into contact with such a fresh breath of living people, of course it will become restless.

If Li Zhen hadn't been suppressing it, it would have definitely sucked the three people on the ground dry.

Not long after, Wang Baoling, who had taken a temporary leave and packed up her things, walked out of the nail salon quickly.

Glancing at the three people on the ground, she asked in confusion, "What happened? Why did they faint?"

Li Zhen casually said, "I don't know, maybe he drank too much."

Wang Baoling had no interest in this matter and threw it aside in the blink of an eye. She said, "I'll treat the mage to dinner. Let's find a quiet restaurant to talk?"

Li Zhen followed Wang Baoling out of the alley with the vampire zombie and came to a Western restaurant opposite.

Wang Baoling ordered her favorite steak.

Li Zhen didn't have much appetite and just ordered some food casually.

Wang Baoling looked at the vampire zombie standing next to Li Zhen like a bodyguard and asked curiously, "Sir, does he need to eat something? How about asking him to sit down too?"

Li Zhen shook his head: "He doesn't need to eat."

Wang Baoling asked curiously, "How can someone not need to eat?"

Li Zhen asked back, "Who told you it was a human?"

Wang Baoling widened her eyes and looked again at the vampire zombie that exuded a terrifying and cold aura.

If it were in the past, she would definitely think that Li Zhen was talking nonsense, but what happened in recent days completely shattered her cognition and made her see another side of the world.

After taking a sip of water, Wang Baoling said, "If someone had said that to me before, I wouldn't have believed it."

After calming down, she said with some fear, "Yesterday, I suddenly saw our former colleague Lao Wu in the bathroom, but... Lao Wu passed away a year ago."

"They didn't believe me, but I clearly saw Old Wu."

"Right at the sink... His hand suddenly grabbed me... A rotten hand... Mage, do you believe me?"

She looked at Li Zhen, as if she wanted to see some comfort on Li Zhen's face.

If she really couldn't bear the psychological pressure brought by these strange things, she would not have believed Li Zhen directly after he told her about her problem.

Li Zhen said calmly, "Your Yang energy is too weak, so it's not surprising that you see strange things."

Wang Baoling breathed a sigh of relief after hearing what Li Zhen said.

She covered her face with her hands and rubbed her cheeks: "Except for the Master, no one believes me."

"Last night when I was going home, it suddenly started to rain heavily. I saw a house collapsed in the mudslide, and many people were crushed under the collapsed wall..."

"They asked me for help, so I went to save them. Later I discovered that they were all ghosts..."

"I don't know where a group of ghosts came from and surrounded me... I was so scared that I ran away." "I met an elderly man who told me that the house over there collapsed many days ago and many people died."

Li Zhen asked, "You couldn't have encountered ghosts like this every day before. Have you ever thought about when this change started?"

Wang Baoling shook her head blankly. "I don't know what's going on, but... I just suddenly feel like something's not right."

"This morning, I clearly saw a customer come in and ask for a manicure, but after I finished manicuring the customer, they all said there was no customer at all, and I was just manicuring the air..."

Li Zhen said, "Think about it again. Has anything unusual happened in the past few days? If anything seems a little strange, it might be related to this matter."

Wang Baoling thought about it seriously, then covered one of her eyes. "Nothing big has happened recently. If I have to say anything special... my glasses are broken, so I don't know if that counts."

"Then I happened to meet a customer who owned an optician's shop. He said I could get a discount on contact lenses, so I went there. That's when all the weird things started happening."

The plot development is the same as in Li Zhen's memory...

After experiencing "Ghost Chasing Seven Heroes", Li Zhen was a little worried that the mission world would undergo special developments, making his foresight meaningless.

After a brief silence, as if thinking about what Wang Baoling said, Li Zhenji asked, "Who is that guest?"

Wang Baoling frowned and said, "It was a man named Shi. When I first met him, he was wearing sunglasses and a black windbreaker, and he spoke very kindly. But later... later... I found that there was something wrong with him."

"What's wrong?"

"he……"

"can not say?"

"He seemed to have the ability to confuse me and make me lose my memory. One day... one night... he... I woke up the next morning and found..."

"According to what you said, this person has a serious problem." Li Zhen looked into Wang Baoling's eyes. "Have you tried taking out your contact lenses?"

Wang Baoling seemed to have thought of something and said suddenly, "How strange! If you hadn't told me, Master, I would have forgotten that I needed to take off my contact lenses."

She stretched out her right hand and touched her right eye, gently at first, but the force became stronger and stronger as she touched.

"No! How come my contact lenses are gone?! Impossible! I clearly had them on! My eyesight is fine now! This...this is impossible!"

The more she touched, the more panicked she became. In the end, Wang Baoling even rubbed her eyeballs back and forth with her fingers, irritating her eyes so much that she burst into tears.

Li Zhen said, "The contact lens has become one with your eye, so your vision is normal."

"Your problem lies in your eyes. Your eyes have the heaviest yin energy in your body."

Wang Baoling wiped her tears and said in a panic, "What the hell is going on? I don't think I've done anything immoral, so why did this happen?"

"I can only say that you're unlucky," Li Zhen said. "From what you said, I can infer that everything started when you put on those contact lenses."

After a pause, he said with certainty, "The guest named Shi you mentioned is most likely the mastermind behind the incident."

Wang Baoling's expression became even more uneasy: "Why...why did he do that?"

After experiencing all kinds of strange things, including the strange thing that her invisible glasses disappeared but her eyesight did not decrease, she has come to believe what Li Zhen said.

"Your Yang energy has been severely depleted, making you look like you've aged several years. It must be him," Li Zhen said calmly. "Once he's drained all of your Yang energy, you'll be dead. You'll lose your value and become his accomplice, forcing him to find his next victim."

Wang Baoling quickly shook her head: "I wouldn't do that kind of thing!"

“Only when your life is in danger do you know whether you will do it or not.”

"No, I will never do that. Who... who is he?"

"Who told you he was human?"

Wang Baoling subconsciously looked at the vampire zombie beside Li Zhen: "Master, are you saying... he's not human?"

"How can a person absorb the Yang energy of a living person? Only a ghost can do that."

Wang Baoling was startled: "Ghost? Then...what should I do now?"

"You can't escape from this ghost unless you catch him."

"How to catch it?"

"You act as bait. Lure him out so I can catch him. If he doesn't show up, I don't know where to find him." Li Zhen formulated a simple plan. "But we can go to his glasses shop first. If he's there, we can save you the trouble of being the bait."

……

After eating, someone called a taxi.

After arriving at the eyewear store owned by Shi Zhongjie that Wang Baoling mentioned and taking a look, Li Zhen asked the driver to drive away.

In Wang Baoling's eyes, the eyewear store was a good one, but in Li Zhen's eyes, it was a ruin after a fire.

There was no trace of the ghost detected there, so Li Zhen naturally did not stay there.

The taxi took the two to the residential building where Wang Baoling lived.

After getting out of the taxi, Li Zhen struggled to drag the heavy vampire zombie out of the car.

This guy couldn't bend his joints, so he had to force himself into the back seat. All he told the driver was that he was drunk.

Li Zhen held the small bamboo basket containing the little ghost in his hands, which was still covered with talismans.

Li Zhen is not going to let it out until it is no longer needed.

Red-eyed bats hang on the body of vampire zombies.

Li Zhen stuffed the palm leaf whip into his sleeve as before so that he could pull it out when needed.

Wang Baoling, who got out of the passenger seat, saw what had just happened and began to believe more of Li Zhen's statement that vampire zombies were not human.

She also associated the special smell of the vampire zombies with the smell of blood...

From the moment she got off the bus until she was almost home, she stayed very far away from the vampire zombies.

However, Wang Baoling also had some confidence that Li Zhen could deal with the strange ghost.

After all, to be able to carry such a strange thing with you, you must have some skills.

Walking into a remote and dilapidated residential building, Wang Baoling explained somewhat embarrassedly, "I rented here because I thought the space was large and the rent was cheap. None of my colleagues live here, so I'm the only one living here."

When they turned into the door, they saw a man wearing glasses waiting in front of Wang Baoling's door.

Seeing Wang Baoling coming back, the man immediately smiled and greeted her: "A Ling, you're finally back. I've been waiting for you for a long time. Who is this?"

He looked at Li Zhen and the vampire zombie beside Li Zhen in confusion.

Wang Baoling quickly introduced him to Li Zhen: "This is my boyfriend He Anping."

Then she pointed at Li Zhen and said to the man, "This is Master Li whom I invited."

"Mage?" He Anping looked at Li Zhen suspiciously. "A-Ling, why did you invite a mage here out of the blue?"

Wang Baoling smiled awkwardly at Li Zhen, quickly pulled He Anping aside, and explained the whole story in a low voice.

After hearing Wang Baoling's words, He Anping frowned and said, "Shouldn't these things appear in horror novels? How could such things happen in real life? Ah Ling, are you sure what you saw wasn't an illusion?"

He grabbed Wang Baoling and said, "Let's go to the hospital and check your eyes to see what's going on. I don't believe the contact lens disappeared. Maybe there's something else wrong."

"Even you don't believe what I said?" Wang Baoling broke free.

He Anping insisted: "You look terrible, you need to go to the hospital."

Wang Baoling directly opened the door of the house and respectfully invited Li Zhen in.

He Anping also walked into the house with a frown.

"A Ling, you really should go to the hospital to check your eyes as soon as possible. Your eyes are very fragile."

Wang Baoling ignored him and looked at Li Zhen: "Master, what should we do now?"

Li Zhen smiled and said, "The first thing to do is to eliminate the uncertainties, including those who are disobedient, to avoid unnecessary accidents."

The person who said this was naturally He Anping.

Wang Baoling looked at He Anping.

He Anping raised his hand and sat down on the sofa: "Okay, okay, I won't disturb you. I'll just sit here and watch you catch ghosts."

Wang Baoling looked at Li Zhen hesitantly: "Anping is still very reliable and will not affect Master Li's work."

Li Zhen said bluntly, "I'm not worried about him influencing me. I'm just worried that he won't obey me and will die at the hands of a ghost. Then he can only blame himself for his bad luck."

He Anping turned his head to the side and said, "Master, don't worry. I also grew up reading horror novels. I would definitely run away the fastest if I saw a ghost."

Wang Baoling put down the bag in her hand, turned around and asked, "Master, are we going to wait now?"

"Yes."

"He will definitely show up?"

"You are his prey. He will definitely come, and then we can give him a big surprise."

"As long as the mage can save me, I will definitely give the mage a reward that satisfies him."

(End of this chapter)